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The following is from: www.democrats.org/blog.html (scroll down page)
White House Front Group Buys $15 Million in Ads In Support of Escalation A new group called "Freedom's Watch" launched today with a $15 million, five-week ad campaign in support of Bush's escalation in Iraq.
Although president Bradley A. Blakeman called the group "grassroots," it is funded by an inner-circle of high-profile, high-dollar Republicans who have long been friends and supporters of President Bush. From The Politico:
The board consists of Blakeman; Fleischer; Mel Sembler, a Florida Republican who was Bush’s ambassador to Italy; William P. Weidner, president and chief operating officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp.; and Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition. The donors include Sembler; Anthony Gioia, a Buffalo businessman who was Bush’s ambassador to Malta; Kevin Moley, who was Bush’s ambassador to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva; Howard Leach, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman who was Bush’s ambassador to France; Dr. John Templeton of Pennsylvania, chairman and president of the John Templeton Foundation; Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast Spectacor, the huge Philadelphia sports and entertainment firm; Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and ranked by Forbes magazine as the third-wealthiest American; and Richard Fox, who is chairman of the Jewish Policy Center and was Pennsylvania State Chairman of the Reagan/Bush campaign in 1980.
Freedom’s Watch has bought ads in 33 television markets. In many cases, the ads will air in the districts of Republican incumbents who have wavered in their support for the Bush administration's Iraq war policies.
Posted by Stephanie Taylor at 03:38 PM | Comments (5) | Digg This!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also, just for fun checked out www.gop.com Quite an interesting site. Couldn't find any way to participate on their "blog"....saw Clinton and Obama's name more often than Bush. Good place to see where they're coming from. I'll follow this for a bit but I have a bad cold and am tired this evening. Enjoy! :sarcasm:
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